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ipsn-topic-selection

Use when deciding whether a sensing/embedded project is an IPSN Information-Processing (IP) contribution or a Sensor Platforms, Tools and Design Methods (SPOTS) contribution, and whether it should go to the IPSN lineage (now the merged SenSys at CPS-IoT Week), a CPS-IoT Week neighbor (RTAS/ICCPS/HSCC), MobiSys/MobiCom, INFOCOM, or a signal-processing journal.

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# IPSN Topic Selection

Decide two things before drafting: **which track** and **which venue**. IPSN — the ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks — split its research papers into
the **Information Processing (IP) track** and the **Sensor Platforms, Tools and Design Methods
(SPOTS) track**, and it lived inside **CPS-IoT Week**. As of 2026-07-09 IPSN no longer runs
standalone — it merged into **SenSys (Embedded AI and Sensing Systems)** — but the IP-vs-SPOTS
instinct still decides how your paper is read and where its evidence bar sits, so keep it.

## First decision: IP track or SPOTS track

This is the choice with no sibling analogue. Get it wrong and your platform paper is judged by
theory reviewers, or your estimator is judged by hardware reviewers.